Meg > Meg's Quotes

“No that relationship didn't work out. But that doesn't mean you'll never find love. It also doesn't mean you aren't capable, likable, and lovely.”
― Lysa TerKeurst

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“But because many of us are afraid of being hurt, we have decided to build only walls. No doors, no windows, no peep holes. Just walls.”
― Jason Illian, Undressed: The Naked Truth about Love, Sex, and Dating

“Because in reality, God knows our hearts better than we do and wants to bless us with a romance full of life-long memories.”
― Jason Illian, Undressed: The Naked Truth about Love, Sex, and Dating

“When We Two Parted

When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
Colder thy kiss;
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this.

The dew of the morning
Sunk chill on my brow—
It felt like the warning
Of what I feel now.
Thy vows are all broken,
And light is thy fame:
I hear thy name spoken,
And share in its shame.

They name thee before me,
A knell to mine ear;
A shudder comes o'er me—
Why wert thou so dear?
They know not I knew thee,
Who knew thee too well:
Long, long shall I rue thee,
Too deeply to tell.

In secret we met—
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee?
With silence and tears.”
― George Gordon Byron, Byron: Poetical Works

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“Ideas are where you find them”
― John McPhee, Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process

“This wasn't my first rodeo in Unrequited Land. In fact, I had a season pass. Each new crush, I'd find myself standing there, fast pass in hand, wishing that someone who had zero interest in me would finally open their eyes and see me standing in front of them.”
― Maggie Ann Martin, To Be Honest

“You're the queen of pushing people away before they can say they like you. The queen of rejecting first so you can't be rejected.”
― Maggie Ann Martin, To Be Honest

“Because you don't give them a chance! You shut them down, talk about being great friends, and even talk about how you're going to be alone forever in front of them. That's not really an open invitation to ask someone out, is it?”
― Maggie Ann Martin, To Be Honest

“It was one of those disappointments that confirmed your every fear that you'd somehow kept at bay with the tiniest sliver of hope.”
― Maggie Ann Martin, To Be Honest

“Love is wonderful, but in the end you're better off with a man who's there for you.”
― Simone van der Vlugt

“Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all!
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none:
And some condemned for a fault alone.”
― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“He says he loves my daughter. I think so too, for never gazed the moon upon the water as he'll stand and read as 'twere my daughter's eyes; and, to be plain, I think there is not half a kiss to choose who loves another best.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“God is in control + God is good + God loves you = Your peace”
― Jonathan Pokluda, Welcome to Adulting: Navigating Faith, Friendship, Finances, and the Future

“We'll trust God for our eternal salvation, but not trust him in the small details of our day-to-day life?”
― Jonathan Pokluda, Welcome to Adulting: Navigating Faith, Friendship, Finances, and the Future

“Heart, we will forget him,

You and I, tonight!

You must forget the warmth he gave,

I will forget the light.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Proud of my broken heart since thou didst Break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee”
― Emily Dickinson

“Second semester will get better, had to get better, Madison thought. If nothing else, through sheer force of will, perhaps she could make it better. And if she told enough people that things were going to go well this time around, said it out loud repeatedly, maybe she could even convince herself.”
― Kate Fagan, What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

“I worry very much, who in God's name will ever want to sign up for this in a relationship? Will anyone want to hire me? Am I really this bad?”
― Kate Fagan, What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

“The pressure to be great, not good, is unrelenting. Believing that this pressure will simply disappear once kids arrive on campus seems like wishful thinking.”
― Kate Fagan, What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

“What if what she wanted and what she thought she was supposed to want were opposed? And what if this gap between head and heart happened again?”
― Kate Fagan, What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

“tiring, but it is not confusing. You are never left wondering if you’ve made the wrong choice, or expended energy in the wrong direction, because there is only the one rung above you. Get good grades. Get better at your sport. Take the SAT. Do volunteer work. Apply to colleges. Choose a college. But then you get to college, and suddenly you’re out of rungs and that ladder has turned into a massive tree with hundreds of sprawling limbs, and progress is no longer a thing you can easily measure, because there are now thousands of paths to millions of destinations. And none are linear.”
― Kate Fagan, What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

“For someone who struggles with the unknown, freshman year of college can feel like walking a path lined with land mines- heart racing, disaster around every corner.”
― Kate Fagan, What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

“Parents don't really know how to help. Some aren't prepared for this new version of their high-achieving kid: doubting, sad, tired, confused- emotions they may have rarely dealt with in high school. And isn't college supposed to be even better than high school? When your child is more mature, self-sufficient, and otherwise flourishing just as she always has been, except now at an even higher level?”
― Kate Fagan, What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

“I knew the problem was with the school, because the second I left campus, I was happy again.”
― Kate Fagan, What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

“In high school she even had time for herself, to draw and read, to write down quotes, to be inside her own head without an agenda.”
― Kate Fagan, What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

“This is also true for Instagram: the more polished and put-together someone seems—everything lovely and beautiful and just as it should be—perhaps the more likely something vital is falling apart just offscreen.”
― Kate Fagan, What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

“She didn't have to return to Philly until Sunday, yet from the moment she sat down in the car, Madison was already projecting five days into the future and anticipating the sadness that returning to campus would bring.”
― Kate Fagan, What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen